This is the statement on climate change that has been drafted by a coalition of some 42 NGOs in Morocco, consensually agreed upon over a series of roundtable discussions held around the country in September and November. The statement has been named "Ourikaßs Call" to commemorate the victims of an incredibly violent storm that decimated a rural village near to Marrakesh in 1995, killing a number of people and making many more homeless.
WHAT IT IS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO
Graffiti that appeared on AMEC offices in Leeds | Bigger pic
WHAT IS THE PIPELINE?
British Petroleum (BP) is leading the consortium of companies intending to build two pipelines to bring oil and gas from the Caspian oil fields to Europe. BP is also the operator and a similarly sized shareholder in the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field and Shah Deniz gas field, which would supply the pipelines.
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Mark Thomas Monday 14th July 2003 - New Statseman
If a British company proposed to upgrade and relocate Hell to Ethiopia, new Labour ministers would talk of creating jobs and having a constructive dialogue with Satan.
By Mark Thomas
Without public finance this project cannot go ahead. It is vital to put pressure on key decision makers for financing the BCP, and companies who are involved in the project. Here are some ideas for getting involved:
Outreach and publicity
Organise a speaker meeting- come to speaker training or contact us for support in organizing a meeting about the pipeline. We have information, materials and a range of speakers about different aspects of the pipeline project. If you'd like to be a key motivator in your area, then come along to the speaker training in January
Students - Organize speaker meetings, write letters, ask questions.. and more.. at BP recruitment events, and oppose BP sponsorship in your universities.
A summary of weather news stories from around the world in another record breaking year for climate change.
A YEAR OF CLIMATE CHANGE
JANUARY
2000 WAS A RECORD YEAR FOR NATURAL DISASTERS
The world's largest insurer Munich Re announced that 2000 was another record year for natural disasters. A series of devastating forest fires in the United States caused losses of more than $1 billion. Dry weather and drought in Europe caused losses of more than $300 million when a severe heat wave in May and June 2000 destroyed crops in southeast Europe (Reuters December 29, 2000).
NO OIL FOR WAR!
ARTICLES MAKING THE LINKS BETWEEN OIL AND WAR
'It's About Oil'- The Independent (UK) January 18, 2003
A matter of life, death - and oil. Thursday January 23, 2003- The Guardian
US Oil at the Heart of Iraq Crisis Sunday Herald - 06 October 2002
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'It's About Oil'
The Independent (UK) January 18, 2003
Robert Fisk
CARBON TRADING IS CONTRARY TO SOCIAL JUSTICE
THE LARGEST RESOURCE GRAB IN HISTORY
You can't trade in something unless you own it. When governments and companies "trade" in carbon, they establish de facto property rights over the atmosphere; a commonly held global commons. At no point have these atmospheric property rights been discussed or negotiated - their ownership is established by stealth with every carbon trade.
5th MARCH 2002
Activists from a group calling itself 'Pie in the Sky' part of the Rising Tide UK network (www.risingtide.org.uk *) today strolled into and disrupted a top-level conference on the new market in trading carbon dioxide emissions. The conference, titled 'Emissions Trading Schemes Objectives, Implementation and Future Opportunities', was being held at London's Kensington Palace Hotel.
